Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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03-06-2009, 07:11 PM
HoustonGM

Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

So, Vlad Guerrero admitted today that he's actually 34, not 33, as his listed age states.

What does this mean? Nothing really.
03-06-2009, 07:30 PM
boomboom

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Maybe he is actually 35... or 37, but is lying, basically you can't trust a person who has lied.
03-06-2009, 07:33 PM
RedsoxRockies

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Maybe he is really 26?
03-06-2009, 07:56 PM
gRYFYN1

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by HoustonGM

So, Vlad Guerrero admitted today that he's actually 34, not 33, as his listed age states.

What does this mean? Nothing really.

Not news
03-06-2009, 08:02 PM
ragecage

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

eh, dont care really
03-06-2009, 08:05 PM
nuzzy62

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by HoustonGM

So, Vlad Guerrero admitted today that he's actually 34, not 33, as his listed age states.

What does this mean? Nothing really.

He's one year closer to getting the senior's discount at Denny's?
03-06-2009, 09:07 PM
actionjackson

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies

Maybe he is really 26?

His wonky knees beg to differ. They can sometimes conspire to make him appear to be 40.
03-06-2009, 09:19 PM
200tang

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

As MLB Rumors puts it, this is pretty old news.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug...shaikin10&pg=1

Reported August, 2008.
03-06-2009, 11:08 PM
dickay

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

all it means is whats already known....one should be very skeptical of the listed ages on a player of forign birth if one is wishing to give him millions.
03-07-2009, 02:11 AM
WHAK0985

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by dickay

all it means is whats already known....one should be very skeptical of the listed ages on a player of forign birth if one is wishing to give him millions.

Careful with that "foreign" tag. Would you really doubt Ichiro's age? Or Dice-K's?

How about players born in "under developed countries" instead?
03-07-2009, 05:11 AM
HoustonGM

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by WHAK0985

How about players born in "under developed countries" instead?

Or "Dominican Republic."
03-07-2009, 05:53 AM
michaelg123789

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

This is big news!!
03-07-2009, 08:34 AM
dickay

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by WHAK0985

Careful with that "foreign" tag. Would you really doubt Ichiro's age? Or Dice-K's?

How about players born in "under developed countries" instead?

sure i'd have doubt over their ages too. i'm not sure of the immigration process, but why would it be easier for those from central america to alter their birth cert. than those from asian countries? Or even Canada for that matter? Maybe its more difficult through their govt., but is it really unfathomable?
03-07-2009, 10:04 AM
BINGLEBOP

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by HoustonGM

Or "Dominican Republic."

Correct. I don't recall players from any country other than the Dominican Republic who ended up being older than originally thought.
03-07-2009, 10:24 AM
PotatoOfCouch13

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP

Correct. I don't recall players from any country other than the Dominican Republic who ended up being older than originally thought.

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember Cuba having a problem with this, just because most of the players end up floating on a raft in the middle of the Caribbean.

EDIT: found an example in Orlando Hernandez
03-07-2009, 10:44 AM
RedsoxRockies

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by PotatoOfCouch13

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember Cuba having a problem with this, just because most of the players end up floating on a raft in the middle of the Caribbean.

EDIT: found an example in Orlando Hernandez

I believe Jose Contreras of Cuba is also lying about his age, or has already been proven too.
03-07-2009, 03:28 PM
HoustonGM

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by dickay

sure i'd have doubt over their ages too. i'm not sure of the immigration process, but why would it be easier for those from central america to alter their birth cert. than those from asian countries? Or even Canada for that matter? Maybe its more difficult through their govt., but is it really unfathomable?

Because highly developed nations like Japan and Canada keep much better records than under-developed nations like the Dominican Republic.

Frankly, if you're that paranoid about the validity of birth certificates, there's absolutely no non-"xenophobic" reason that you should be 100% confident in American birth certificates.
03-07-2009, 03:51 PM
WHAK0985

Re: Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by dickay

sure i'd have doubt over their ages too. i'm not sure of the immigration process, but why would it be easier for those from central america to alter their birth cert. than those from asian countries? Or even Canada for that matter? Maybe its more difficult through their govt., but is it really unfathomable?

I really hope you're saying this just for entertainment's sake, and you don't legitimately believe this.

Japan and Korea are highly developed nations. Technologically, even more so than the United States or Europe.

I second HoustonGM. If you doubt their record keeping, you might as well doubt every nation's record keeping.